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The Curriculum and Project Planner for Integrating Learning Styles, Thinking Skills, and Authentic Assessment

Imogene Forte & Sandra Schurr

This graphic organizer was developed to show how five major curricular and instructional models can interface with one another for designing high-quality lesson plans, interdisciplinary units, cooperative learning tasks, and assessment programs.

Published by Incentive Publications
P4960 $6.99

The Learning Leader:
How to Focus School Improvement for Better Results

Douglas B. Reeves

Acclaimed author and consultant Douglas B. Reeves debunks many common myths about school leadership and equips you with better strategies and tools for leading your organization to higher student achievement. Understand why focusing on results only can lead to misperceptions about your school�s true performance. Discover how to use a Leadership for Learning Framework to relate leadership actions to school success, and explore ways to use leadership maps.

Published by ASCD
P5815 $26.95

Clustering Standards in Integrated Units

Diane Ronis

Integration is a powerful tool in today's standards-based classroom. This book takes that power one step further with integrated units. Teachers can cluster standards in integrated units - more standards are covered without sacrificing content or learning. Based on research that people learn best by doing rather than just listening, Ronis presents techniques for sustained, in-depth exploration of events, circumstances, or objects in the students' environment. By using authentic models of real-world problems, students learn to develop critical thinking skills and become motivated to learn. Templates for integrated unit planning are provided as well as blackline masters for teachers to use to create their own units. Each chapter concludes with fully developed sample units and, for convenience, web sites for state standards are listed in an appendix.

Published by Skylight
P5300 $15.48

Members receive a 10 to 20% discount

Teaching Green:
The Middle Years. Hands-on Learning in Grades 6—8

Edited by Tim Grant and Gail Littlejohn

This book is designed to help educators find developmentally appropriate teaching ideas related to acquiring the skills and values of active environmental citizenship at the middle level. The book offers 50 kid-tested teaching strategies that promote interdisciplinary hands-on learning about natural systems and foster critical thinking about environmental issues, both local and global. Readers will find accessible background information and suggestions for practical projects and activities on a diversity of environmental topics.

Published by New Society Publishers
P5768 $22.95

Implementing Curriculum Integration in Standards-Based Middle Schoolsï—The Principals Role

Jim Snapp

Developing a standards-based, developmentally responsive curriculum is more difficult and more critical than ever before. In this resource, a practicing principal offers a compelling rationale, with specifics, for a curriculum that truly meets the needs of all young adolescents, speaks to their interests and is fully tied to state and national standards.

Published by NMSA
P5809 $10.00

Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping

Edited by Heidi Hayes Jacobs

Curriculum maps are among the simplest yet most effective tools for improving teaching and learning. Because they require people to draw explicit connections between content, skills, and assessment measures, these maps help ensure that all aspects of a lesson are aligned not only with each other, but also with mandated standards and tests. Heidi Hayes Jacobs and her coauthors offer a wide range of perspectives on how to get the most out of the curriculum mapping process in districts and schools. Teachers, administrators, staff developers, and policymakers alike will find this book an essential guide to curriculum mapping and a vital resource for spearheading school improvement efforts.

Published by ASCD
P5756 $25.95

Members receive a 10 to 20% discount

Getting Started with Curriculum Integration

Dennis Carr

Curriculum integration is a complex and challenging task. Getting Started with Curriculum Integration will inspire teams to take on that challenge. This book provides a clear explanation of benefits to students, easy to understand steps to move toward a student centered curriculum, and sample units to assist teachers. Getting Started with Curriculum Integration is a must for all teachers who seek to strengthen their students' understanding of the concepts that tie our curriculums together.

Published by NELMS
P5340 $12.95

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